The Quinn's Awesome Journey: 10/7/07 Aliens?

We made our way into town and the first thing we noticed is that aliens in some form are everywhere! Every street light looks like this.

This past July was the 60th anniversary of the Roswell UFO Incident as it is called.

The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely differing views on what actually happened and a passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO supporters believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer. A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time. In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.

Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician, Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, where he claimed that Roswell alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base. We read his disposition in the UFO museum and he stated that he was contacted by the Roswell Air Field personnel about child size coffins and asked alot of questions about embalming.

Numerous books, articles, television specials and even a made-for-TV movie brought the 1947 incident fame and notoriety so that by the mid-1990s, strong majorities in polls, such as a 1997 CNN/Time poll, believed that aliens had visited earth and specifically that aliens had landed at Roswell and the government was covering up the fact.

So that's the story, now here are pictures of the town.

Alien footprints.

We went into this one shop that had everything alien related. T-shirts, key chains, glasses and mugs, blankets, towels, books, golf balls...anything you can think of, they had it. You never saw so much junk in one place! In addition, you were greeted by "George".

This store even had a soda fountain in the back.

Off to the side of the store area, for an additional two bucks one could go through "Area 51". Ok, ok, we did it, we went through Area 51. It depicted scenes in which you could have your picture taken as shown below.

Here's Bob having a drink at an alien bar.

I took the opportunity to tour a space ship.

Next stop was the UFO Museum and Research Center.

Here is where the "proof" was. Affidavit after affidavit was displayed from military personnel, townspeople and "experts" in the field of UFO's.

We had to wonder why the United States Government felt the need to write the following directive.

Take notice of the subject matter in this one.....PRESS BLACKOUT.

This building also has a research library. We were surprised at some of the items it held. Did you know that Barbie even got involved in the Roswell Incident?